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Object type: Part of cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 34.2 cm (13.4 in); W. max. 31.7 cm (12.5 in); D. max. 7 cm (2.75 in)
Stone type: Sandstone (pollution blackened), pale yellow, medium to coarse-grained, hard quartz cemented, slightly micaceous. Middle Coal Measures Group, Carboniferous (Local Thornhill Rock?). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 225-7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 145-6
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An incomplete cross-head of type D9. All faces are edged with a cable moulding of the 'reel' type found on the inscribed cross-head Dewsbury 10. This is larger than Dewsbury 10, although at a depth of 7 cm it is still a slender head.
A (broad): There is a flat inner moulding with a deeply incised inner edge. The face within these borders is completely plain, except at the centre, where there is a raised curved area set diagonally across the centre and apparently overlapping one of the cabled edges. Could this be a deeply modelled halo, rather than a central boss?
B and D (narrow): Plain
C (broad): As face A, but the central area is damaged. The missing part straddles the mouldings as on A.
It is impossible to speculate on the possible haloed head at the centre of one face. If it is part of a head, it pre-dates that on Low Bentham 1 (p. 211, Ill. 542). See also the discussion of Dewsbury 13 below. Collingwood (1915a, 169) dated this to his period AC, which means he thought it could be as late as the Anglo-Scandinavian period and certainly later than Dewsbury 10 and 11 above, though it is fully Anglian in form. It shares its type of edge moulding with Dewsbury 10, however, and its relative slimness with both, and so is likely to be close to, or of the same date.
